Hey there, desperate fans! It’s episode 7 of our beloved show’s sixth season, and I welcome you to this week’s review!
Spoiler-free zone:
We are in episode seven and I still see nothing tiring about this season. This episode stays true to the shows essence, and while it isn’t emotionally driven, it manages to move the mystery forward and also give us insight on the main characters in an uplifting and entertaining way. Any secret that the audience new but the characters didn’t, is given away and thus nothing is left to be dragged out.
Spoiler zone:
What seemed, to me, as the perfect closure for the episode, was Mary-Alice’s final narration. The storylines weren’t building up to high drama and it seemed appropriate to have a more comedic and, as I said above, uplifting ending. The music in the end really gave a light feeling to the episode, and it is important to have these moments now and then so the comedy and drama mix is more balanced.
The episode started with how Julie met Nick Bolen. Mary-Alice narrates a sequence of events that describe the creation and ending of their relationship. She in fact met him when he moved on the street (so he wasn’t someone she knew before she returned to the Lane) and while she wrote a note to him telling him to end what they had, like Mary-Alice said, “Some men, can’t take ‘no’ for an answer”. This results in Nick going over to Julie and asking her to give it another go and as they fight Lynette overhears them (since she went over to the house to give Susan something). After Julie opened the door, Nick left and Lynette asked what was going on. Julie then tells Lynette everything and then the opening credits start. At first I thought that Lynette’s and Julie’s relationship was a tiny bit forced but if you think about it, they’ve known each other for more than a decade and thus it is normal that they are more acquainted with one another.
The above opening triggers Lynette’s storyline, who after she confronted Nick about what Julie told her, he got a bit physical and threatened her. This behaviour resulted in Lynette believing that Nick could be Julie’s strangler and decides to go with Tom and tell the cops about Julie and Nick. When Nick finds Angie organizing some of her recipes (which relates to Bree’s storyline) she tells him that he just got a phone from the cops about Julie’s attack. Turns out that Angie knew it all along but finally confronted Nick about it. Was she mad? Not as much as I expected. After punching him in the face (Drea de Matteo really knows how to throw a punch… better than me at least… I feel ashamed!) Angie tells Nick they are even (which I guess means she has put Nick through a lot). Moreover, Angie tells Nick that she told the cops that he was with her since she knows he wouldn’t strangle Julie. This season’s mystery is very consistent and I am really liking it so far!
As far as Susan is concerned, she has hired a detective to investigate Katherine, after Angie raised Susan’s suspicions over her. While it turns out Katherine wasn’t Julie’s attacker (phone records confirmed she was on the phone), it does turn out that Susan’s female detective was a classmate of hers who Susan called “moose” (and also was involved with a guy she dated). The fact that the detective can hold a grudge is not good for Susan. When she finds out that Susan shot Katherine and didn’t report her she locks her up. Poor Susan is in the slammer now…
Furthermore, Gaby is still homeschooling Juanita, and as seen in last week’s episode, she is having a hard time. Gaby, however, is lucky enough to have hired an educated maid that ended up being the one homeschooling Juanita. When Carlos finds out he confronts Gaby who rightfully explains to him that her desperate attempt to try and teach something is harming her relationship with Juanita. This final scene shows the incredible range that Eva Longoria and the writers have, in jumping from drama to comedy.
Last but not least, in Bree’s story we see her clashing with Angie. It has already been explained that these two characters are opposites so when Bree is invited over for dinner in Angie’s house, the contrast becomes even more apparent. Things got uncomfortable as soon as Angie asked to work for Bree’s catering business since Katherine was fired. Bree of course said that she wasn’t looking for anyone but when an Italian family asked Bree to cater for five hundred people, Bree used Angie’s recipes as her own. When Angie found out, she got furious and thus Bree decides to have a talk with her. At their conversation we get to see Bree and Angie understand each another, and it is always interesting to see how two extremes meet one another. Throughout this stressful situation, Bree lets her anger out on Orson after he starts questioning her about the broach she had on the previous episode (the one Karl gave her). Marcia Cross is really funny in that scene mainly because you can understand how fed up and exhausted Bree is, at that point.
To sum up, even though we are in episode 7, the episode still has a unique feel to it and the main mystery shows that it has potential to be a very strong one.
